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End of an Era: Analog TV Silenced

Posted on 16 June 2009 by


The transition from the 60 year old analog TV standard has been made, and now all over the air transmissions are digital.

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Most of us have already made the transition.  If you have digital cable, you probably didn’t notice anything.  If you still use rabbit ears on a old TV, you need to buy a converter box.  You can still apply for a coupon on the DTV transition web site for another month.

What are your thoughts?   We’re you affected?  Do you still watch TV or do you use on demand services like Hulu to replace it?

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  • http://www.gamingwithchildren.com Michael Anderson

    We’ve been digital for quite a while, to the point where our kids can’t even remember when we had our old antenna ripped off the roof of our old house when we got new siding.

    For me it just adds to the crazy things like rotary phones that mark me as some sort of anachronism … :D

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  • Joel McLaughlin

    Or the Commodore 64, 8 bit or 16 bit computers and soon…32 bit computers.